To all the pains I've felt before

[ August 21, 2022]

How will I even start this article. Let my fingers click and tick my phone's screen until letters turn to words, into sentence, and into thoughts.

To all the pains I've felt before, thank you.

Actually we all know, that life is not always happy go lucky. It's not always rainbows and butterflies. Pain is pain. Devastating things that might crush our soul or turn our views in different way, but we can't actually avoid all the pain in our lives. Bad decisions, wrong decisions, or even fault of others made us feel so sad and broken. It's not a good thing at all, but why I am grateful for it?

You know, you can't really said something is like this if you haven't experienced its opposite. You can't say it's bitter if you haven't tasted sweetness. You can't really feel genuine happiness if you never experienced weariness. Pain just like change, is necessary and inevitable.

Cliche as it may sound, but pain can make you stronger. Pain can teach you a lot of things that will help you become better. It depends on how you take this pain. Thank you to all the pains I've felt before, I become more mature most especially in my faith. More struggles draw me nearer to God. To some, if not all, pains I've felt before, I never questioned God why, because those pain thought me how to trust and stay calm.

I hope that I will always look at how great God is rather than look how big the problem or situation is.

To all the pains I've felt before, thank you.